Sinner questions schedule, surges into Madrid Open quarters
Madrid, April 29 -- Jannik Sinner suggested the Madrid Open organisers should reconsider their tournament scheduling to avoid late-night finishes like the one Rafael Jodar experienced in the third round on Sunday.
In a rare 11 am start on Tuesday, Sinner moved past British 19th seed Cameron Norrie 6-2, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals.
He explained he was put on first on Manolo Santana Stadium so that Jodar, his potential next opponent, would be scheduled in the afternoon to give the Spaniard time to recover from his three-set win over Joao Fonseca that ended at 1 am on Monday morning. "It's quite unusual for me," Sinner told Tennis TV about his early kick-off.
"I don't know the last time I played at 11. But for me it doesn't matter what time. I try to do my best. There was a question if it would be me or Jodar to play at 4. But I think it's right he plays at 4, because he finished very, very late.
"But at the same time, I feel like we need to make some adjustments to the scheduling of the day. Two matches (starting) from 8pm is very late.
"Even though you have one day in between. But still it's very, very late. "You finish at 1:30am, and you need to eat, you need to have treatment, so it's very late. But we try to adapt ourselves, our bodies, our minds, so from my side it was a good performance today."...
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